All texts from the "primordial basin" are relevant to
us. That includes fragments from Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, the Corpus Hermeticum, the other
Gnostics (Nag Hammadi Codex), the Essenes and later the (women)mystics, heretics and
others. Even St.Augustine had to acknowledge that "the essence of what characterizes
Christendom, already existed before the latter emerged" (Retractiones 1.12.3).
Combined with recent theological studies (G.Lüdemann and many others), it is fair
to say, that the Bible is just a result of eclectical activity, censured by church
authority with the aim of establishing and exercising power. "True sayings" of
Jesus may not even exceed 15% of the New Testament.